Sushil Kumar Modi, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, has already addressed a hundred public meetings in the state. In an interview to Amitabh Srivastava , he says that there's a second Narendra Modi wave in Bihar and the NDA will improve its tally of 31 Lok Sabha seats that it won in 2014. Excerpts

The projection and pursuit of Muslims as a homogenous 'vote bank' has done them a great disservice-it has invisibilised their legitimate issues and allowed a radical Hindu consolidation at the behest of the BJP

When Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed his first public meeting in Patna on February 3, the man tasked with drawing big crowds to the venue was Anant Singh, the criminal-turned-Independent MLA from Mokama, known by the nickname ‘Chhote Sarkar’.